In today's open source roundup: GOG.com now supports Linux. Plus: A distrohopper falls in love with Debian and settles down, and a KDE 5 slideshow

ITworld|July 24, 2014

Linux gaming has been in the news a lot lately, with more and more companies interested in adding support Linux. GOG.com is a popular gaming service that promised to add support for Linux a while back. Now the site has announced that it has more than fifty Linux games available, with plans to add many more in the future.

A while ago, we've announced our plans to add Linux support as one of the features of our digital platform, with 100 games on the launch day sometime this fall. We've put much time and effort into this project and now we've found ourselves with over 50 titles, classic and new, prepared for distribution, site infrastructure ready, support team trained and standing by, and absolutely no reason to wait until October or November.

It's great to see GOG.com so enthusiastic about Linux gaming. It's yet another indication that Linux gaming is red-hot right now, and I'm glad to note that they have plans to add so many more games soon. It should make a lot of Linux gamers quite happy when all of the additional games become available.